Administrative Components Metadata

DCMI Usage Board MeetingSeoul, 16 October 2009

A-Core•1999 RFC - Renato Iannella & Debbie

Campbell

•metadata about metadata: “simple verification of the integrity, ownership, and authorship of metadata retrieved from networked resources”

•8 properties in 4 categories:

‣who, what, when - 5 properties‣validity dates - 1 property‣metadata location - 1 property‣ rights ownership - 1 property

A-Core•name

•email

•contact

•activity

•date

•dateRange

•location

•rights

Administrative Components

•Final version 2003, Jytte Hansen & Leif Andresen

•Updated January 2006 with an additional property (source)

•“a practical tool for users of metadata to manage metadata with special focus on interoperability between different systems...for administration of metadata”

•23 properties in 3 categories:‣Metadata for the entire record‣Metadata for update and change‣Metadata for batch interchange of

records

PropertiesAbout the

metadata• identifier•source•scope•comment• location• language• rights•dateRange•handling

About change & update activity

‣ action

‣ name

‣ email

‣ contact

‣ date

‣ affiliation

Properties 2About transmission and

interchange

•database

• transmitter

•fileName

• technicalFormat

•characterSet

•bibliographicFormat

• resultFile

•These are about transmission of the metadata records

Proposal•Recommend a simplified Admin

Components set•Drop all the properties about

transmission ‣usefulness?‣METS

•Remove some unnecessary properties:‣ source‣ scope‣ handling

•An application profile would be a necessary step, e.g. are the properties with the same name/label as those in DC terms used with the same semantics?